title: [Small bowel obstruction and gastric ulceration resulting from rice cake ingestion -computed tomography diagnosis in eight patients-].
abstract: Here we report the cases of eight patients who developed small bowel obstruction and/or gastric ulcers after ingesting rice cake, the traditional Asian food, and were managed conservatively. This report adds to the existing literature on gastrointestinal disorders induced by rice cake ingestion, which are characterized by gastrointestinal obstruction, perforation, and ulceration and are occasionally accompanied by peritonism. These conditions tend to occur in 50-60-year-old males who wear dentures or eat rapidly. Therapeutically, hard rice cake remnants in the upper gastrointestinal tract can be broken up by endoscopic snaring and can be detected by computed tomography as homogeneous high-density material at approximately 145 (range:120-206) Hounsfield units.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Internal Medicine, Shimane University School of Medicine.
authors.forename: Akihiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Oka
authors.forename: Yuji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Amano
authors.forename: Yasushi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Uchida
authors.forename: Kouji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kagawa
authors.forename: Kento
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takatori
authors.forename: Naoto
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kitajima
authors.forename: Hiroki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sonoyama
authors.forename: Yasumasa
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tada
authors.forename: Ryusaku
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kusunoki
authors.forename: Nobuhiko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Fukuba
authors.forename: Naoki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Oshima
authors.forename: Ichiro
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Moriyama
authors.forename: Takafumi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yuki
authors.forename: Kousaku
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kawashima
authors.forename: Shunji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ishihara
authors.forename: Yoshikazu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kinoshita
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004435:Eating; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012275:Oryza; D013276:Stomach Ulcer / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed